Im suzanne clark, senior evp here at the u. S. Chamber and i am delighted to welcome you here today. Now, when you have my job, you get to be in this room and say that sentence a lot. But i actually mean it today or mean it more than usual. Not just because youre a charming audience, but because i started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in s
Im suzanne clark, senior evp here at the u. S. Chamber and i am delighted to welcome you here today. Now, when you have my job, you get to be in this room and say that sentence a lot. But i actually mean it today or mean it more than usual. Not just because youre a charming audience, but because i started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in s
Really get it out of your blood. Is an important topic at the right time thank you so much to be here into our partners have sponsors and to the talented team to put this together our transportation infrastructure expert. The chamber is a founding sponsor which i meant to ask the team we are the founding sponsor of iweek and i am proud to see how this has grown and reached with programmatic activity every year. You know, about infrastructure that will ever learn so ill have to tell you what a problem is for the country as a nationwide challenge with a nationwide conversation over the next five days we will gather to focus on the for structure at 100 defense nationwide chicago, boston chicago, boston, a salt lake , and right here in the Nations Capital. We will send a strong and unified message ladies and gentleman the time is now. We have a once in a Generation Opportunity to make major progress and we must seize that with urgency. We have all read the grim statistics and because of th
Today. Thank god youre here. We have some news comcast is reporting and when you report on a company like comcast, there are many Different Things that people watch. Not necessarily the bottom line number but let me give that to you any way. Earnings per share, 52 cents that was up almost 27 year over year it was 3 cents ahead of expectations consolidated revenue grew 10 . 9. 8 to 21 21. 2 billion. That is above expectations of 20. 855 consolidateded revenue was one of the things that people might look at, but maybe more so is ebita growth Strong Revenue and ebita growth increasing by 10 . First half ebita growth the best in six years a lot of this, sorkin you see the main cylinder . Squawk box. Part of it. Film revenue up crazy Nbc Universal, outstanding quarter according to the company, grew ebita by 20 Comcast Cable delivered what the company is calling a great quarter is a strong balance between financial growth and solid subscriber metrics you watched this over the years. What do
Company, the firestorm and what hes now saying this morning. Its a beautiful night and bachelorette shocker. An ending like weve never seen before in series history. Rachel gets her happy ending. Will you marry me . Yes. Its the guy no one expected. The couple flying coast to coast overnight live here this morning. The ring, their plans and is it true love . I think i want to marry you and good morning, america. Hope youre well this Tuesday Morning. It is a good Tuesday Morning for rachel and bryan. Yes, and i know you were up all night, george, watching it because we cant wait for rachel and bryan to join us live this morning after a very dramatic night last night. A lot of people thought she was actually going to pick the runnerup peter but she surprised everybody and picked bryan. A lot of reaction. A lot of reaction to that. Thats coming up. But first, lets get the latest on that Severe Weather that is slamming the country, a powerful storm system stretching all the way from texas